this web site in 2016-15

sa 31 Dec2016

In this no man's land between Christmas (hope you had a good one) and New Year we've been testing and hacking in the background trying to fix some web site issues like /stradbroke+ above ... still hacking.

we 21 Dec2016

Now when you visit www.nearthecoast.com you'll be forwarded to our secure site https://www.nearthecoast.com, see the little padlock on the address bar?

Didn't like the Flickr checkerboard top left and it slowed the page load so we've replaced it with recent uploads to our Alamy stock image account.

tu 15 Nov2016

Problems with a data centre many levels above us took nearthecoast down this morning for maybe four hours. Email sent to us between roughly 8:00-11:50am may have been lost. As those signs say Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

su 13 Nov2016

Our link checker is starting to pick up the now defunct local web sites that chose not to pay One Suffolk and the village site that bizarrely now thinks it's 2015.

Hopefully you've noticed we've had a slight makeover? Very regrettably we've had to let Betty go, increasingly she seemed ... well a bit random.

mo 19 Sep2016

Nine years ago today we inherited the bulletin board from another place (they didn't like people saying things ... you know ... saying things). Though most of the board's function has understandably gone to the evil Facebook the board still serves a useful if diminished use.

tu 13 Sep2016

Yes we've had some issues but it's nice to be back, still getting sorted.

tu 23 Aug2016

A few days later than expected but our PhotoBox pro gallery has now CLOSED.

This web site is now NOT closed 2:00-5:00pm for staff training ... Sandra threw a sickie.

th 26 May2016

This web site will be closed tomorrow 2:00-5:00pm for staff training.

tu 24 May2016

Maxine Roper ran the London Marathon in memory of two lost friends including our chum Fish and has raised over £2,000 for the mental health charity Mind. You can still donate (if only just) as today's your last chance.

12:05pm: The bulletin board unavailable while we upgrade the software ...

12:29pm: We're back.

we 9 Sep2015

63 years and 216 days ... congratulations your majesty. Watching your coronation in black and white as the archbishop raised the crown giving it the full monty our great aunt Con lent over and said Here Lil, they're all actors aren't they.

At the beginning of April BT made us an offer we couldn't refuse so after 16 years we transferred our Orange mobile to BT ... for most of this month we've had no or only a partial mobile service. Seems to be working now, try texting us on 07970 865730

fr 24 Apr2015

Not Stirling Moss though Guess Who 35? was British and now Linda in Framlingham stationers knows he was in entertainment.

mo 20 Apr2015

If you are registered to vote you should have received a polling card by now (you don't need the card to vote though it does make it easier). You can register online but you have to do it by midnight tonight to vote this May.

The Vatican City has announced the excommunication vitandus of Hopkins Homes for engaging in joint commercial activities with Satan. An excommunication vitandus barrs Catholics from dealing with the excommunicated which should slow the spread of Satanism within Suffolk.

mo 30 Mar2015

175 years ago today Beau Brummell died in a French lunatic asylum ... it was probably what they made him wear.

su 29 Mar2015

12:10pm ... no 01:10pm the clocks have gone forward.

tu 24 Mar2015

Guess Who 35? on a motorbike he found in a hedge. It was a 1926 New Imperial with burned out valves and no springs, but this is very unlikely to help you.

sa 21 Mar2015

The clocks go forward next weekend and yesterday was the spring equinox when day and night are equal so we've added a graphic and backdated it.

Rather annoyingly that nice Mr Google is being rather slow to notice all the changes we're making to our mobile site to please him ... but then he's not changing his algorithm until next month.

mo 9 Feb2015

Our attempts to please that nice Mr Google with how we look on a smartphone took if not a giant leap forward at least a significant step today.

su 8 Feb2015

5:45pm: The bulletin board is unavailable while we upgrade the software ...

6:06pm: ... the board is back (that was quick) and the board time is now right.

sa 7 Feb2015

We're being a bit quiet because we're still trying to please that nice Mr Google with the mobile version of this website. We seem to have achieved that but it's beggared everything else. des' recursive axiom: Everything takes longer than you think even when you allow for des' recursive axiom which states everything takes ...

th 5 Feb2015

Not surprisingly what with Christmas, house sales at the end of last year quiet.

sa 31 Jan2015

We got our first digital SLR camera in 2006, it was a Canon 300D (sold in the US as EOS Rebel) and second hand off eBay of course. It had a screen on the back slightly bigger than a postage stamp and the following year we upgraded to a 350D. Old digital cameras don't die as quickly as you might think, yesterday there were 7,690 uploads from 300Ds to Flickr.

tu 27 Jan2015

Maximus Decimus Meridius:My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Today we are still mostly fixing mobile usability issues to please that nice Mr Google.

tu 20 Jan2015

Today we are mostly fixing mobile usability issues on this site to please Google.

mo 19 Jan2015

If you think Mrs Brown's Boys is hilarious and Detectorists didn't make you laugh you probably won't think much of Up The Women (BBC 2 10:05pm Wednesday) ... mind you it's Jessica Hynes, the delicious Rebecca Front and Grumio from Plebs.

sa 17 Jan2015

Surprisingly it would seem Guess Who 34? was a very early roller derby skater ... but it hasn't prompted anyone to make a guess.

su 11 Jan2015

The first house sales report of 2015 has a good handful of village sales.

We stick by the tradition that Epiphany is twelfth night so we'll be taking down our Christmas cards today.

su 4 Jan2015

Blimey! There's been a bug and security fix for phpBB (the software that runs our bulletin board) for over a month now and we hadn't noticed ... did the 3.1.1->3.1.2 upgrade last night.

fr 2 Jan2015

For the new year we've tweaked (not twerked) the on this day. If you click on the day's date below the nearthecoast media bar top right it'll take you to what happened on this day in history.

th 1 Jan2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR! No doubt in 2015 Andrea Hill will return as County chief executive and sponsorship renames Suffolk as Hopkinshomeshire, it'll be cheapest to park in Essex and use helicopters to travel around ntc, finally roller derby in Ipswich and perhaps we get a record 20,000 visitors in a month, we abandon VeganB46 but still drop a dress size and despite the continual house building and bureaucratic BS near the coast remains a pleasant place to live ...